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basic: do i need the wild card? (8 posts)

  1. omoriginals
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    Hello,
    I'm trying to wrap my brain around what the wild card does.

    I believe it allows me to have
    primarydomain.com/cooluser

    I don't care about the above.
    What I want is to simply have
    cooluser.com

    a unique domain for each user's site.
    Do I need the wild card?
    Thanks.

  2. SteveAtty
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    the wild card allows you you have.

    me.cooluser.com
    steve.cooluser.com
    fred.cooluser.com

    and so on

  3. cafespain
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    Without it you could have primarydomain.com/cooluser and then map the cooluser.com to the blogs domain. So technically no you don't need the wildcard, it's just nice to have it.

  4. andrea_r
    Moderator
    Posted 14 years ago #

    The wildcard allows you to have username.domain.com. it;s a wildcard *subdomain*.

    If you want a unique domain for each user's site, you need a domain mapping plugin, but you also have ot create a sub-blog first and then map it to the new top-level domain.

  5. omoriginals
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    where will the actual files reside?

    1) primarydomain.com/cooluser
    then map to cooluser.com

    or

    2) cooluser.com

    ?
    Thanks.

  6. andrea_r
    Moderator
    Posted 14 years ago #

    They don't reside anywhere. The blogs are virtual, even if they are domain mapped. They only exist in the database. the only physical files are from the main install.

  7. jayce103
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    So if I wanted to have it as

    mysite.com/whoever instead of whoever.mysite.com would I still need to use a wildcard?

    If I do need to change th is how/where do I do it? Do I do it in the database or?

    Thanks

  8. DeannaS
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    Subdirectories do not require a wildcard.

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